24-Hour Renewal With All Core Courses

This course is approved by the Iowa Real Estate Commission to meet the 8 hour Law Update continuing education requirement. The purpose of this course is to ensure that Iowa real estate brokers and salespersons remain informed about the latest laws, regulations, and rules that govern their profession.

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS

•    Stay informed of updated laws and rules that regulate qualifications and application requirements for obtaining and maintaining an Iowa real estate license, including reading several enforcement actions recently taken by the IREC for violations of license laws and rules.
•    Review important and current information about the formation and fulfillment of agency relationships in Iowa with a focus on recently amended provisions specific to brokerage agreements.
•    Take an in depth look at current disclosure requirements specific to agency, advertising, and property condition disclosures.
•    Learn about the laws and your role in protecting home buyers from predatory lending schemes, including the purpose and delivery standards for required mortgage loan disclosures. 
•    Gain a better understanding of how the laws and real estate practices throughout history have impacted discriminatory and equal access to housing.
•    Learn why and how to recognize personal biases and develop cultural competency, so you can better serve the needs of consumers with equal concern, respect, and fairness.
 

This course is approved for 4-hours of CE for Iowa real estate licensees. The purpose of this course is to provide licensees with the knowledge and skills to better handle situations where an agent’s duty to act in their client’s best interest may conflict with other legal and professional obligations. 

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS

• Review the difference between ethical behavior and legal compliance and the purpose of professional ethical codes.
• Gain an understanding of different levels of misrepresentation and their application in real estate transactions with a focus on fulfilling legal and ethical requirements for advertising and property condition disclosure.
• Discover how to navigate situations where an agent’s lawful duty to act in a client’s best interest may conflict with other legal and professional obligations.
• Learn skills that open lines of communication with others and how to use these skills to understand and meet the individualized needs of seller and buyer clients.
• Improve your understanding of how to comply with the consumer protections provided under the federal Fair Housing Act and Iowa Civil Rights Act.
• Learn how to recognize and prevent phishing scams used to obtain personal information of clients that may be used by criminals for other fraudulent purposes.